I thought about posting my narrative about Blue Thunder's adventure and following surgery today, but it turned out a little long for a blog post and is more of me making fun of myself than anything else. So I'll summarize.
Today, my dad and I superglued bits of my car together.
It's a bit called the pigtail that plugs into the alternator. It's not easy to get a new one without buying a new electrical harness and cutting it up, which isn't exactly a cheap way of going about things. So we opted for the next best thing, which was gluing the plug into the alternator.
And we didn't use super glue. After we duct taped the pigtail long enough to get home, we pulled out the epoxy glue. It's some super strong stuff that is a mix of epoxy resin and an unpronounceable chemical. Armed with toothpicks coated with the stuff, we shoved the pigtail into place and gave it a nice thick layer of five-minute epoxy.
Blue Thunder's holding up fine, now. ^_^
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Wow....and now I know a lot more about the power of various glues, tapes and toothpicks than ever before! I feel enlightened. :)
Thanks for the comment on the tanka, by the way; I'm glad you like it.
I've actually epoxy'd my fingers together before.. it's pretty tough stuff. That sounds slightly precarious though, like the kind of thing that you'll be driving down the road and then all the sudden your car just shuts down and you're stalled in the middle of the freeway. Hehe. I think I had a dream about that once.
No, that's the sort of thing that was going wrong. I wasn't exactly on the freeway, but I was on University Avenue. And then the car...just...died. Deader'n a doornail. Unrevivalbe. We made sure to push the pigtail in really, really far before we encased it with epoxy.
adhesives are great and powerful things.
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